BigQuery Enhances Reservation Management and Studio
BigQuery now allows grouping reservations to prioritize idle slot sharing, offering better control over high-priority workloads. A new organization policy feature, currently in preview, enables custom control over workload management resources. Additionally, BigQuery Studio now supports Git repositories for managing and versioning SQL scripts and notebooks, also in preview.
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You can group reservations together to prioritize idle slot sharing within the group. Reservations within a reservation group share idle slots with each other before making them available to other reservations in the project, giving you more control over slot allocation for high-priority workloads. This feature is generally available (GA).
- BigQuery
You can now use a custom organization policy to allow or deny specific operations on workload management resources including reservations, assignments, capacity commitments, and BI reservations. This feature is in Preview .
- BigQuery
You can manage and version control SQL scripts and notebooks with BigQuery Studio Git repositories , which provide a streamlined, folder-based integration with remote Git repositories. This feature is in preview .
https://docs.cloud.google.com/release-notes#May_18_2026